Don't shake the art
melted_snowball, metalana and I went to Oakville to see the Andy Warhol exhibit (at the Oakville Art Gallery). It was excellent- some Warhol I hadn't seen before, including "Black Lenin", probably my favourite piece there.
None of us had been to Oakville before (my fingers keep writing Oakland)- it's a tony town, full of old ladies with badly behaved dogs, but lots of good bakeries and galleries. The Oakville Gallery is split into two parts. The part with the Warhol was 5 minutes out of town at "Gairloch Gardens", whose grounds are pretty spiff. Except, it's a public garden, public parking, and there were five or six weddings trying to happen there simultaneously. Imagine trying to get out of a parkinglot blocked by stretch limos, and that was our last taste of Gairloch Gardens. Grr.
The other "huh" moment was just after leaving the gallery, we discovered a piece of outdoor art, sort of a tall cage, sort of designed into chairs. It evoked the inside of a church; and if you sat in the chairs and shook them, they each made different tones, like a church bell. How cool? Very cool.
Then the security guard walked by and shouted, "Hey! You! Knock it off!" Huh? "You're not allowed to do that." Oh, it looked like interactive art. And it was so cool. Oh well.
We went back into town and hit the downtown part of Oakville Galleries, which had Montréal artist Isabelle Hayeur. The exhibit was a dozen and a half wall-sized photshopped prints of suburbia. I liked it; I may try to describe it later, but I want to give Alana a chance at the laptop so I'll stop.
Before we left, we talked to the person at the desk, who gave the scoop about the non-interactive interactive art. Turns out they're trying to preserve it; they just lack signs to say it. Sigh.
Oh well. Great art; I can recommend the trip if you're able to get there by the end of the month.
None of us had been to Oakville before (my fingers keep writing Oakland)- it's a tony town, full of old ladies with badly behaved dogs, but lots of good bakeries and galleries. The Oakville Gallery is split into two parts. The part with the Warhol was 5 minutes out of town at "Gairloch Gardens", whose grounds are pretty spiff. Except, it's a public garden, public parking, and there were five or six weddings trying to happen there simultaneously. Imagine trying to get out of a parkinglot blocked by stretch limos, and that was our last taste of Gairloch Gardens. Grr.
The other "huh" moment was just after leaving the gallery, we discovered a piece of outdoor art, sort of a tall cage, sort of designed into chairs. It evoked the inside of a church; and if you sat in the chairs and shook them, they each made different tones, like a church bell. How cool? Very cool.
Then the security guard walked by and shouted, "Hey! You! Knock it off!" Huh? "You're not allowed to do that." Oh, it looked like interactive art. And it was so cool. Oh well.
We went back into town and hit the downtown part of Oakville Galleries, which had Montréal artist Isabelle Hayeur. The exhibit was a dozen and a half wall-sized photshopped prints of suburbia. I liked it; I may try to describe it later, but I want to give Alana a chance at the laptop so I'll stop.
Before we left, we talked to the person at the desk, who gave the scoop about the non-interactive interactive art. Turns out they're trying to preserve it; they just lack signs to say it. Sigh.
Oh well. Great art; I can recommend the trip if you're able to get there by the end of the month.